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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 3, Fable 2</span><span class="fp-text">LA PANTHÈRE ET LES BERGERS</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber III, Fabula II</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">PANTHERA ET PASTORES</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ceux que l'on offense rendent ordinairement la pareille.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Solet a despectis par referri gratia.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un jour, une Panthère imprudente tomba dans une fosse.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Des paysans l'aperçurent ; les uns l'accablent à coups de bâton,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">les autres à coups de pierres ; mais quelques-uns, pris de pitié,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et pensant qu'elle mourrait sans en recevoir davantage,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">lui jetèrent du pain pour prolonger un peu sa vie.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">La nuit vient et tous s'en vont avec sécurité,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">croyant bien la trouver morte le lendemain.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Mais la Panthère, ayant repris ses forces,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">d'un bond léger s'élança hors de la fosse,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et regagna promptement sa tanière.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Peu de jours après, elle arrive,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">égorge les brebis, tue les bergers ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">rien n'échappe à sa rage impétueuse.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Alors les villageois qui l'avaient épargnée,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">tremblant pour eux-mêmes, viennent racheter leur vie&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Je me souviens, dit-elle, de ceux qui m'ont jeté des pierres</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et de ceux qui m'ont donné du pain ; ne craignez donc rien,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">je ne reviens en ennemie que contre ceux qui m'ont frappée.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Panthera inprudens olim in foveam decidit.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Videre agrestes ; alii fustes congerunt,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">alii onerant saxis ; <span class="fp-correction" title="quidem  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">quidam</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quidam  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">quidem</span></span> contra miseriti</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">periturae quippe, quamvis nemo laederet,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">misere panem ut sustineret spiritum.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Nox insecuta est ; abeunt securi domum,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quasi inventuri mortuam (<span class="fp-correction" title="post  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">postridie</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="postridie  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">post</span></span> tridi.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">At illa vires ut <span class="fp-correction" title="reficit  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">refecit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="refecit  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">reficit</span></span> <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n95/mode/1up">p.32</a>]</span> languidas,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">veloci saltu fovea sese liberat</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et in cubile concito properat gradu.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Paucis diebus interpositis provolat,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">pecus trucidat, ipsos pastores necat,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et cuncta vastans <span class="fp-correction" title="sevit  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">saevit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="saevit  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">sevit</span></span> irato impetu.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Tum sibi timentes, qui <span class="fp-correction" title="fere  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">ferae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="ferae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">fere</span></span> pepercerant</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">damnum haud recusant ; tantum <span class="fp-correction" title="prumta  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">pro vita</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="pro vita  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">prumta</span></span> rogant.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">At illa&nbsp;: «&nbsp;Memini qui me saxo petierat,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="quis  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">qui</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="qui  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">quis</span></span> panem dederit ; vos timere absistite ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">illis revertor hostis qui me <span class="fp-correction" title="leserunt  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">laeserunt</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="laeserunt  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">leserunt</span></span>.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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